by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 7, 2016 | News
We’ve been busy over the past few months, discussing how best to carry the AWW challenge into our sixth year. One of the problems we’ve identified is how diffuse our reading and reviewing community is. We have lots of participants who review books in a...
by Lisa Fletcher | Dec 2, 2016 | Article, News
One stifling summer day in the early 1990s, I opened the glove box of my boyfriend’s mother’s car and it exploded with paperback Mills & Boons. I didn’t take a photo, but I’d finished reading one of the novels before we’d reached the beach. Earlier this year,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 30, 2016 | News
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Australian Women Writers Challenge. As those familiar with this blog will know, the AWW challenge was established with the aim of helping to counter the gender imbalance of reviewing of books by Australian women in...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jul 15, 2016 | News
Yesterday the winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Awards were announced at the State Library of NSW. The Kibble and Dobbie Awards predate the Stella Prize in their support of Australian women’s writing. The awards were established in 1994 as part of...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jun 25, 2016 | News
Dear Fiction Writer Do you procrastinate? Do you find yourself setting writing goals and end up prioritising everything else in your life? Over many years, I’ve heard writers say they’d rather do anything than sit down at their desks and write. When a...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | May 30, 2016 | News
Congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin prize. As with last year, four out of the five shortlisted authors are women. The shortlist is: Hope Farm by Peggy Frew Leap by Myfanwy Jones Black Rock White City by A.S. Patrić Salt Creek by...
